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Drama: March 16, 2022 Issue [#11261]




 This week: Recognising the Drama
  Edited by: THANKFUL SONALI Library Class! Author IconMail Icon
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3. Letter from the Editor
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About This Newsletter

While Random Reviewing and while going through the Newsletter archives, I came across some items that struck me as being dramatic at multiple levels. Here's an informal write up about what I felt about these items.


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Letter from the editor

Dear Reader,

Simply sharing with you the drama I found as I read these items on WdC.

These are short items, but they cover a range of occurrences, emotions and insights. There is 'drama' when we can feel intensely and variedly, there is drama when we have an 'aha' moment into human nature, there is drama in learning something new, in knowing a secret, in sensing the familiar, and conversely, the unfamiliar!

A skilled writer of prose or poetry does not need a lot of complicated words to create this drama, it is achieved efficiently in a few well-chosen words and phrases.

 Brick Walls Open in new Window. (E)
Got to write what I feel...
#2085873 by Fyn-elf Author IconMail Icon


Fyn's 'Brick Walls' had me right from the title and brief description.

The opening line then packed a punch, because I nodded at the first half, and went 'Oh, yeah, THAT ...' at the second half! That line mentions something, erases what it has said and yet emphasises it ... brilliant.

This poem starts with generalisations about various attributes of human nature in the balance. It goes on to mention a particular person and the choices that person seems to have made. It concludes with a visual metaphor - and a very apt one at that.

It isn't a long poem, but it provides food for thought and certainly had me picturing some folks I know personally!


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#2246319 by Not Available.


Jacky's Flash Fiction story 'The Tree' begins with a classic line, something that every reader can relate to. A child winning a prize and sharing the happy news with his father.

The story goes on ti intrigue the reader, with the Dad's response. Slowly, the reader catches on to what is going on. The protagonist (the child) doesn't know it, but the reader does, and the reader chuckles through to the final line, the clincher.

Again, a short piece, but very engaging -- and packed with drama!


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 Playing Sock Solitaire Open in new Window. (E)
wonders about missing socks, celebrating their escape from us or grieving for lost mate?
#1250793 by Jamdownjenny Author IconMail Icon


Jamdownjenny's 'Playing Sock Solitaire' is something I read within days of joining WdC. The title is relatable, and the poem is the drama of the familiar - you put in two socks, but just one emerges from the dryer.

Jenny then takes the drama a step further to personify the socks. She gives them thoughts and feelings, and conjectures about these. Personification is a useful tool to create drama - since the object doesn't actually have feelings of its own, you can attribute it with any feeling that enhances your piece.


Just sharing what I found 'dramatic' in some of the short pieces on WdC! You don't need length to get dramatic.

Thanks for listening,
On WDC's 21st Birthday, Kiya gave Sonali the BEST gift EVER!



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Come to think of it, there is drama in numbers. Just look at the dramatic possibilities in "They were four; now they are three..." That would make a reader stop and wonder. -- Joy Author Icon

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